Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies... Your mobile phone can actually
be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival.
Check out the things that you can do with it:

FIRST
Emergency Services

The Emergency Number worldwide for all Mobile Phones is 112.
If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and your mobile will search any existing network in your area to establish the emergency number for you, and
interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked.
This works on all phones worldwide and is free.

SECOND
Have you locked your keys in the car?

If your car has remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone:
If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call
someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone.

Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock.. Saves someone from having to drive
your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be thousands of miles away,

Editor's Note: I didn’t believe this when I heard about it! I rang my daughter in Sydney from Perth when we went on holiday. She had the spare car key. We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'

THIRD
Is your mobile phone battery flat ?


All mobiles have Hidden Battery Power

To activate, press the keys *3370# (remember the asterisk). Do this when the phone is almost dead.
Your mobile will restart in a special way with this new reserve and the instrument will show a 50%
increase in battery life.. This reserve will get re charged when you charge your mobile next time.
This secret is in the fine print in most phone manuals. Most people however skip this information without realising.

FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #
Ensure you put an asterisk BEFORE the #06# sequence.

A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.
If your phone ever get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code.
They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.
You probably won't get you r phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If
everybody done this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
This secret is also in the fine print of most mobile phone manuals. It was created for the very purpose of trying to prevent phones from being stolen.

Also -ATM PIN Number Reversal - Good to Know !!

If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering
your PIN # in reverse. For example, if your pin number is 1234, then you would put in 4321. The ATM system recognizes
that your PIN number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money
you requested, but unknown to the robber, the po lice will be immediately dispatched to the location.
All ATM’s carry this emergency sequencer by law.

This information was recently broadcast on by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it.


Please pass this along to everyone.

This
is
the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends

Fleckjohn65 Loc: Ajax Ontario Canada

WOW. What great info Doddy. Appreciate it.

John

traveler90712 Loc: Lake Worth, Fl.

I would check this out before trying any of this!

http://www.truthorfiction.com/cell-phones/

johnhaker Loc: Middletown. Ohio

Thanks,
Passing this info on.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

Sadly, too many people believe everything they read or have passed on to them ;)

:thumbup:

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

EoS_User Loc: Oshawa, Ontario Canada

Snopes says some do most don't

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Interesting, but not true.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

From www.truthorfiction.com:

Summary of eRumor:

The eRumor is a collection of alleged little-known facts about cell phones (summarized above).




The Truth:


Let’s go through them one at a time.

The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112-–Fiction!

There is no single emergency number in use world wide. The number 112 is used in some countries but not all, nor is it used in the U.S. for emergency calls. Many countries also use 119, 999, and 911. Additionally, not all phones would in all countries to be able to even try dialing a single emergency code.

Some mobile phone providers in the U.S. have programmed 112 into their systems to redirect emergency calls to 911, the nation wide emergency telephone number in the U.S.

You Can Unlock Your Car Remotely Through a Cell Phone-Fiction!
This was an eRumor that previously circulated on its own. The claim is that if you lock yourself out of your car but have a extra remote switch at your home you can phone someone at home, have the person hold the switch up to the phone, then you hold your cell phone near your car door and when the button on the other remote is pressed—your car door will open. This one is also false. It assumes that car remotes use sound waves to open your door but most of them use radio signals, not sound. A radio signal will not travel over the audio of a cell phone.


There may be hidden battery power in your cell phone-Fiction!
If there is a phone that offers this feature, we have not found it. The eRumor claims that if you punch in a certain code on your cell phone you will access reserve power. It mentions Nokia in particular but the folks at Nokia told TruthOrFiction.com that they do not have any phone with that capability.

How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone-Truth!
The eRumor says that inputting “*#06# into your phone will reveal your serial number. It says that you should write that number down and if your cell phone is lost or stolen, giving the number to your cell provider will give them what they need to disable your phone.

This doesn’t work on every phone, but some phones do reveal what is called an International Mobile Equipment identity or “IEMI” number when punching in the code of “*#06#.” This is especially true for GSM/DCS/PCS phones. If such a phone is stolen, it can be “greylisted” or “blacklisted.” Greylisted means that the phone can still be used but can also be tracked. Blacklisting means that the phone cannot be used.

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

Thanks, you saved me from looking like a fool.

Appleknocker Loc: Calgary, AB The Stampede City

Doddy; This is covered in SNOPES - URBAN LEGENDS
I read your article and was about to send it out to all my friends and print it for myself. One should check check each item on their cellphone. I know you meant well, but we must be cautious.

Take a look at this report:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp#8Vlq3p3wh1uWHdv3.99

Regard, John

Shoot Happens

Are you people saying that everything on the internet is not true. Is Dr. Google not a real doctor. Albert Einstein said that 86% of everything on the internet is true.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

Yes, and Al Gore invented the internet ;)

:thumbup:

picsbywayne Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The last comment about reversing your ABM pin # to alert police is quite laughable.

What if your pin is "3003" - try reversing that number and see what you get.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

Damn... now I need to change my PIN!!!!!!
:-D